the dropped shims came from the same place, body shims are commonly found there - that mount point is always a rot problem, there should be a weld nut inside that lump - the PO prolly found the threads corroded away and shrugged it off, you're faced with taking the piece off and replacing the nut inside or putting it back together the way it was ohwell

Bill


Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature we find it attached to the rest of the world" John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics & Rust-a-holics Unanimous parking lot